Washington Township High School - Maroon and Gold Yearbook (Iberia, OH)

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THE MAROON AND GOLD Pagell --'+Qa :nc5fsgf5fMn mcg fi. CCMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Graduating Class of 1926 WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL Iberia, Ohio Community Hall, Thursday Evening, May 20, 1926 Eight O'clock PROGRAM Music Invocation ...... ...... I Announcements --- Salutatory ...... Q ........ --- Dr. Fisher --- Mr. Zulauf --- Mary Sipes - Margaret Sorensen Elizabeth Truex Elizabeth Richardson Mr. M. C. Warren Music Class History .... ...... Class Phophesy .... Class Will ..... ...,,,, Music Class Address --- --- Music Valedictory ............. - Presentation of Diplomas ..... Benediction .... - Music for the evening furnished by Music the Cre stline High S ------ Carroll Seif - Mr. Henry Lepp ------ Dr. Fisher chool Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Smith, Superintendent of the Crestline Schools. -55520 ncqgan

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Page1O THE MAROON AND GOLD 'mf'-in u u :HES 'P' SENIOR CLASS PLAY BASI-IFUL MR. BOBBSU Presented by THE SENIOR CLASS Washington Township High School, Iberia, Ohio, Tuesday Evening, May 18, 1926-Community Hall. CAST OF CHARACTERS Katherine Henderson, a young Wife --- -- Elizabeth Richardson Frederick Henderson, her husband -- ....... Carroll Seif Mrs. Wiggins, the landlady .......... --- Elnora Johnson Obadiah Stump, a fresh country product --- ........ Doyle Rusk Francis Whittaker, an athletic girl ..... --- Margaret Sorensen Rosalie Otis, a society bud -...,..... ...... M ary Sipes Mr. Robert V. Bobbs, the bashful one --- ........ Gail Burt Jean Graham, a Delaware peach .... .... E lizabeth Truex Marston Bobbs, anything but bashful --- .... Lloyd Nichols Celesta Vanderpool, of the Movies --- --- Dorothy Sorensen Julie, her French maid from Paris, Ky. ............ Harriet Johnson Time-Day before yesterday. Locality-Any suburb. , Act I-Was he a burglar? Late afternoon in June. Act II-A human butterfly. Nearly night. Act III-Thieves and bridegrooms. That night Cas they say in the moviesj. ' Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been. But more tragical Words, as you'1l agree, Are: It is, but it hadn't ought to be! VVhittier felongatedj. sgg.-,Jn uebfgau mage

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Page12 THE MAROON AND GOLD 'O-FS! u u 15-4- SALUTATORY Friends, teachers, Mr. Warren, members of the Board of Education, and schoolmates: I am here to welcome you in behalf of the class of '26, lt is my honor to say that word which can lighten the load, brighten the way, and make the entire day more cheerful. That word it Welcome For four long years we have toiled in the hope of at last graduating from Washington township High school. These years have been filled with joy and work. We wish to thank the instructors for what they have done for us. They have been ready at all times to help up and have done it willingly. We wish to compliment the Board of Education on giving us the advantages of a four year High school course. We also want to thank them for the various forms of athletics which are provided. We recognize the fact that our parents and all others of the township have been instrumental in giving us these advantages, and to you we extend thanks. We are assembled here on the evening to which every High school student looks forward. For us, the looked-for evening has arrived. For us, this is the finish and the starting place. It is the end of our High school career, but not the end of toil and reward. It is the beginning of life, and the way we live in the future will determine how much the les- sons we have tried to learn, and which our teachers have endeavored to teach us, have become a part of our minds so that we can use them for our life work. Now is the time to launch out and begin the greater tasks of life. Where shall we anchor? Let us endeavor to reach the very highest mark of per- fection in anything we shall undertake that is worthy of being done by us. YVe do not believe that anyone could do anything too well, but as the class of '26, we hope to do as well or better than anyone before us has done. lf we do not accomplish as much we shall feel that we have fallen short in at- taining that for which we have been workingg for which the patrons of the school have spent their money, and for which our teachers have been striv- ing to prepare us. As in school, so in life, each has has a work which he can do better than anyone else. We may not see our life work clearly now, but we know that we have found individual tasks in school, tasks which we were better fitted to perform than any schoolmate. We have done these tasks the best that we could in most cases, and now is the time to find the greater work, the work of life. Let us find it and resolve that we will strive earnest- ly until we have cast our anchor on the shores of the golden isle of success. Again in behalf of the class of '26, let me extend our thanks to the Instructors, the Board of Education, the parents and all patrons of our school, and also to the speaker of the evening, Mr. Warren. We are glad that you have come this evening, showing your interest in the school and all activities and programs connected with the school. Once more, welcome to you, one and all. -Mary Maude Sipes. CLASS HISTORY 1 The class of '26 entered Washington township High school in September, 1922, with twenty mem- bers. We are now quite a contrast to the class of boys and girls which marched into the assembly room in that year. We were typically green Freshmen and had great fear of our faculty, especially Mr. Baughman, the superintendent. The other members of the faculty were Miss Harvey and Mr. Vanatta. As the year progressed we lost some of our timidity and mingled with the upper classes in their activities. Thus we finished our first and perhaps most difficult year with the loss of only two members, La- Verne Ernst and Maxine Paxton, After a short summer vacation we came back again to strive for the goal which we had determined to reach. Three new members were welcomed into our class, Harriet and Elnora Johnson and Dorothy Nel- son. Eliene McDonald and Lewis Sipes abandoned our ranks during the year. Thus at the end of our Sophomore year our class roll numbered nineteen. The next fall, after a pleasant summer vacation, we again climbed the familiar stairs of Iberia High but the enrollment of our class was much less than it had been the previous year. Only twelve members came back. Florice Palmer, Walter Rinehart, Hazel Nichols, Robert Timson, Margaret Garverick, Russell and Lavon Baughman failed to report. The latter two having moved to Oakhill. A new member, Ernest Halliwell, joined our ranks, making our class- roll thirteen. During the year the class organized and elected officers, chose class colors, and the class flower. Our class was well represented in athletics, having three boys on the basketball and baseball squads, and three girls on the girls' basket- ball squad. The Junior boys won the inter-class championship of the school. The greatest event of the year was the Junior- Senior reception, which was one of the best ever put on by a Junior class of Iberia High. Thruout the year we were continually striving to do our best and to iaise the standard of our school. Then for this our fourth and last year, our class came back with eleven members enrolled as Seniors, Ernest Halliwell and Dorothy Nelson having left us. The class members have filled their place as leaders, with honor, and participated in and sup- ported athletics, debating and other activities nobly thruout a very successful year. We have selected as our motto Tonight We Launch, Where Shall We Anchor? Likening life to a great sea, we are launching our ship and we shall strive to anchor at the great shore of success. We have truly enjoyed our school years and de- part with regret, but before we say goodbye to our friends, schoolmates, and teachers, may we ask, Have we not been a true, noble, and loyal class? -Margaret Sorensen. -+5291 A ncegau ncaa,-M